Whistle-blowing in Medical School: A National Survey on Peer Accountability and Professional Misconduct in Medical Students.

Objective: This study examines medical students' attitudes towards peer accountability.

Methods: A nationally representative sample of 564 third year medical students was surveyed. Students reported their agreement or disagreement with two statements: "I feel professionally obligated to report peers whose personal behaviors compromise their professional responsibilities" and "I feel professionally obligated to report peers who I believe are seriously unfit to practice medicine.

Premedical students' exposure to the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practices.

Purpose: Physicians' exposure to pharmaceutical industry marketing raises concerns about their ability to make unbiased, evidence-based prescription decisions. This exposure begins early in medical education. The authors examined the frequency and context of such exposures for students before matriculation to medical school.